Saying goodbye to South Africa was a sad moment but exciting at the same time. We had an incentive to get back on the ship early. We had a VERY special guest speaker that night before we set sail: Nobel Peace Prize winner and Semester at Sea Alumni (he and his wife have sailed on two SAS voyages) Archbishop Desmond Tutu! He walked into the Union to a standing ovation. He provoked laughter as he mentioned that being back on the ship (“not boat” hahaha !inside SAS joke) the M/V Explorer felt “weird” like “being back home. And you come home and see all these strange people and think…what are you all doing here!? ” Archbishop Tutu is a charismatic man with a contagious laugh and most importantly a contagious heart. He spoke to us for 1/2 an hour and left us with this message: “Go for it. Be as idealistic as you ever can be. Dream that this world CAN actually be a better world. Dream that this world can be one where we are going to say IT IS a total nonsense IT IS actually a sacrilege that we can spend so much on instruments of death and destruction when we could be using it investing it in making this a better world. And so I say go on dream it. Dream. Dream God’s dream. Be as idealistic as you ever could be. Go for it. Go for it. God has no one except you….Didn’t I tell you? You are Aaaawesome!”
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